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The Mountains of California

By John Muir

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Contents

1. The Sierra Nevada
2. The Glaciers
3. The Snow
4. A Near View of the High Sierra
5. The Passes
6. The Glacier Lakes
7. The Glacier Meadows
8. The Forests
9. The Douglas Squirrel
10. A Wind-Storm in the Forests
11. The River Floods
12. Sierra Thunder-Storms
13. The Water-Ouzel
14. The Wild Sheep
15. In the Sierra Foot-Hills
16. The Bee-Pastures

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The Mountains of California

By
John Muir

New York
The Century Co.
1894

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Hoofed Locusts.

Copyright, 1894, by The Century Co.
The De Vinne Press.

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List of Illustrations

• Hoofed Locusts (Frontispiece)
• Mount Tamalpais--North of the Golden Gate
• Mount Shasta, Looking Southwest
• Mount Hood
• Mount Rainier from Paradise Valley -- Nisqually Glacier
• Map of the Yosemite Valley [bigger, 90K]
• Map of the Yosemite Valley, Showing Present Reservation Boundary [bigger, 110K]
• View of the Mono Plain from the Foot of Bloody Cañon
• Lake Tenaya, One of the Yosemite Fountains
• The Death of a Lake
• Lake Starr King
• View in the Sierra Forest
• Edge of the Timber Line on Mount Shasta
• View in the Main Pine Belt of the Sierra Forest
• Nut Pine
• The Grove form [Pinus tuberculata]
• Lower Margin of the Main Pine Belt, Showing Open Character of Woods
• Sugar Pine on Exposed Ridge
• Young Sugar Pine Beginning to Bear Cones
• Forest of Sequoia, Sugar Pine, and Douglas Spruce
• Pinus Ponderosa
• Silver Pine 210 Feet High
• Incense Cedar in Its Prime
• Forest of Grand Silver Firs
• View of Forest of the Magnificent Silver Fir
• Silver-Fir Forest Growing on Moraines of the Hoffman and Tenaya Glaciers
• Juniper, or Red Cedar
• Storm-Beaten Hemlock Spruce, Forty Feet High
• Group of Erect Dwarf Pines
• A Dwarf Pine
• Oak Growing Among Yellow Pines
• Track of Douglas Squirrel Once Down and Up a Pine-Tree When Showing Off to a Spectator
• Seeds, Wings, and Scale of Sugar Pine
• Trying the Bow
• A Wind-Storm in the California Forests
• Water-Ouzel Diving and Feeding
• One of the Late-Summer Feeding-Grounds of the Ouzel
• Ouzel Entering a White Current
• The Ouzel at Home
• Yosemite Birds, Snow-Bound at the Foot of Indian Cañon
• Snow-Bound on Mount Shasta
• Head of the Merino Ram
• Head of Rocky Mountain Wild Sheep
• Crossing a Cañon Stream
• Wild Sheep Jumping Over a Precipice
• Indians Hunting Wild Sheep
• A Bee-Ranch in Lower California
• Wild Bee Garden
• In the San Gabriel Valley. -- White Sage
• A Bee-Ranch on a Spur of the San Gabriel Range. -- Cardinal Flower
• Wild Buckwheat. -- A Bee-Ranch in the Wilderness
• A Bee-Pasture on the Moraine Desert. -- Spanish Bayonet
• A Bee-Keeper's Cabin

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Bibliographic Information

The Mountains of California,
Muir, John, 1838-1914.
1894.
Call Number
F866 .M95

The Mountains of California, by John Muir: a machine-readable transcription. Collection: "California as I Saw It": First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900; American Memory, Library of Congress. Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress . AMRvr-vr04.

Washington, 1993 (Place and date of transcription only). This transcription is intended to be 99.95% accurate.

Library of Congress Catalog Number rc 01-874. Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress . Copyright status not determined.

Translated by Dan Anderson from SGML from the Library of Congress : "The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920" , American Memory Collection.

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Note from American Memory Collection, Library of Congress

Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. The Mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the beauties of the Sierra. He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects. While Yosemite naturally receives great attention, Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.

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